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UFC NEWS – Hendo Won’t Skip His Way Into Jones Fight If Evans Wins At UFC on FOX 2

[box_light]“We’re working on it now. We’re going to obviously see what happens in this Rashad fight at the end of the month. The next fight on FOX, Rashad is fighting (Phil) Davis, so we’ll see what happens there. If Rashad wins, if Rashad comes out injury free, we’ll get the Jon ‘Bones’ Jones vs. Rashad Evans fight going.”[/box_light]

UFC president Dana White is going to stay true to his word and has decided to wait out this month’s UFC on FOX 2 main event before determining who will get the next crack at Jon Jones, who is ready to return to action.

As he revealed on yesterday’s Jim Rome show, Dana White confirmed the plans to have Evans face Jones for the UFC’s light-heavyweight title if he can get passed Phil Davis in the evening’s main event.

However, it would appear as if a Davis victory would not put him in as a lock for the title fight and that the UFC may opt for Dan Henderson in the event of an Evans loss.

Good news for Rashad who has been the long standing number one-contender for more than a year, but for one reason or another has yet to try and earn his belt back.

62 Responses to “UFC NEWS – Hendo Won’t Skip His Way Into Jones Fight If Evans Wins At UFC on FOX 2”

hendo vs nog would have been nice. I think Rashad should have first dibs, and Hendo is a big draw that has interesting fights outside of a title fight. Hendo/Rampage in Japan would have been sick but thats not happening.

Are you retarded ? Just cause he got ko’d ince means nothing. Youre just another bones nut hugger. Lwatch the sport, learn the sport and than come back with a better reply. You just sounded like an idiot.

You may be right about Rashad’s 1 time KO and loss not meaning anything in Jones’s fight with him. However, for someone to bring that into question doesn’t mean they know nothing about the sport. Obviously they probably saw him do the stanky leg against Thiago Silva. I think that could be anyone’s fight but it’s just been so long since we’ve seen Rashad fight a top contender(I don’t count Tito in his current condition). Hopefully the fight happens and it’s a good fight.

I despise Jon Jones, but if you really think Rashad has any shot beating Jones, you haven’t been watching their fights. Does Rashad getting knocked out just once mean anything? Maybe not in how you think it would/wouldn’t, but Rashad is scared to stand up these days. Unless he’s only seen round one of the Machida fight, Jones has definitely put some fear in him to stand up… So Rashad’s lost all this confidence in his standup game. He juat wants to take down and so absolutely nothing. He has no submission game against someone like Jones, and he’s shown just some awful attempts at ground and pound. The root of this problem though, is he cannot put Jones on the floor. If he does in fact achieve that at some point during the fight, he’s not strong enough to hold him there for one of his awful dry humpings. Someone must be blind to not see how Jones absolutely dominates his opponents in the strength area. He’s an ok striker, nothing special but has the reach and his over the rop techniques going for him in surprise and whatnot, but if he gets his hands on you pr you try to have a grappling match with him, you’re done. Rashad will blow my mind if he can give Jones any little bit of trouble. The only wah to beat Jones is by KO, and if you ask me, Hendo’s the only one left to land that shot as Jones’ striking technique will only get better.

Davis has only beat Nog by decision, up and coming Gustafsson and Brian Stann by decision. He hasn’t even begun to fight the elite in that weight class. Hendo has been on a roll since he lost to Shields, plus the dude is 41 years old. His fighting clock is ticking. Only makes sense to put the Legend Hendo in there.

love how you put main event in sweden as if it proves something haha, brian stann MAYBE top 5 in the weight division below, and nog (though i love him), is past his prime and davis couldn’t come close to a finish. get a grip

fedor still had him down, just wasn’t smart enough to seal the deal, not a fedor fan either i’m just saying i think hendo is too old to fight Jon, for someone to beat Jon i think they need to be explosive

Rashad is wack! Bones will destroy him. I’d have rather seen Rashad v Hendo so Hendo could’ve did him like Pissbing. Then Hendo would have another UFC title fight and get twisted by Bones. Now, I personally believe a super fight between Bones and Anderson would not only be exciting… but Bones would be stopped in dramatic fashion and the Spider would simultaneously hold both titles.

Haha, you’re banned from BJ.com bc you’re a moron! Like the guy said before, Rashad tore Tito up in the summer and hurt himself, that’s why Lyoto got the shot instead of Rashad.. You should actually watch MMA before you comment on it.

Rashad will out strike, wrestle, and out point Phil David in a 3round WAR! Then he will get a shot at the champ JBJ! The first round will be good for Evans but it will not be enough to stop the champ! JBJ throws an elbow in the second that cuts Rashad and its all over!

Rashad doesn’t seem to be so brilliant after the Lyoto fight, I mean I understand he did what he had to do to beat Rampage and I take nothing from that, but in the 3rd round when he got caught it wasn’t even by a hard shot and if Rampage wouldn’t have tried to toy with his food I think he may have beaten rashad in the 3rd round. Either way, after the Lyoto fight I don’t think Rashad can take shots as well as I used to believe so I think he’d have hard time getting inside on Jones to take him down to even be a threat. I do believe Rashad has ENOUGH power to hurt Jones with a nice punch but thats about the only chance I give him versus Jones if he can’t take him down. All things said, I do believe Rashad is the number 1 contender, I do believe he is going to beat Davis and he has the talent to beat anyone OUTSIDE OF Jones in the LHW division and if he fought Lyoto again I think he’d be a little smarter and take him down first chance he got.

Everyone keeps saying Rashad has a glass chin he got knocked out once in his career and that too only after taking a lot of punches to the head and even some kicks that to me isnt a glass chin thats a chin that has been tested. Rashad in my opinion has the best shot at taking the title from Jones aslong as he gets inside and keeps clear of the insane submissions jones has. I dont think Jones will be able to knock Rashad out this is going to the judges with rashad winning or by submission with Jones winning

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